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ReviewArts
Ghost Story podcast review — addictive tale of murder and haunting
...I hesitate to reveal more, though I can tell you that there is a spy subplot and a cameo from the crime writer Dorothy L Sayers....
October 30, 2023
HTSIThe HTSI design special
Cameron Short and Janet Tristram’s school of block
...“The combination of texture, humour and the trompe l’oeil design ‘hanging’ with game honours old traditions… For Janet and Cameron, God really is in the details....
April 12, 2024
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
HTSI
For the Brandolini dynasty, beauty begins with their nonna
...of Fiat Industrial SpA – but her home emanates a sense of her formidable character, with Cecil Beaton portraits and Capote Black and White Ball snapshots attesting to her social power....
March 1, 2024
HTSI
At home with Frankel, the racehorse turned super-stud
...His trainer Henry Cecil described Frankel as the best horse he had ever seen and, in all likelihood, “the best there’s ever been”, and in 2012 he retired following an undefeated 14-race career....
October 4, 2023
ReviewTravel books
Steeple Chasing by Peter Ross — tales of a church-crawler
...Touring East Anglia, Ross inspects the roof angels of St Peter’s Upwell, the Fenland church on which Dorothy L Sayers drew for her tantalising 1934 mystery novel of bell-ringers and bigamy, The Nine Tailors...
May 12, 2023
Travel
Inside the wild world of superyacht toys
...During a tour of Phoenix 2, a 90-metre vessel which the Cecil Wright brokerage is offering for €125mn at the Monaco show, I meet its interior designer....
October 14, 2023
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
OutlookSimon Kuper
Fay Weldon’s death is a reminder of advertising’s golden age
...The future detective novelist Dorothy L Sayers, as a copywriter in London from 1922 until 1931, created the undying Guinness ad starring a toucan: “If he can say as you can / Guinness is good for you / How...
January 9, 2023
HTSIInside 15 extraordinary homes
The Pantone playground home of Olivia von Halle
...“It’s like walking into a dream world,” says designer Cumber, of the experience of entering the golden atrium, where the stairwell walls are decked with original Cecil Beaton sketches, and into the rosy...
April 21, 2023
ReviewCrime books
Genre round-up — the best new crime thrillers
...Finally, aspirant crime writers will relish the tips in Howdunit, edited by Martin Edwards (HarperCollins, £14.99); everyone from Dorothy L Sayers to current crime writers are on hand to inspire those hoping...
June 13, 2022
ReviewVisual Arts
Walter Sickert — British modernism’s man of mystery
...“Self-portrait: The Bust of Tom Sayers”, standing between a popular boxer’s bulky statue and a delicate porcelain vase reminiscent of Whistler, celebrates conflicting interests....
April 28, 2022
ReviewCrime books
How to Solve a Crime by Dr Angela Gallop — a forensic eye for detail
...In Dorothy L Sayers’ The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1928), Lord Peter Wimsey recruits a chemist acquaintance of his to test a paint sample for poison....
February 24, 2022
Private equity
Inside private equity’s race to go public
...European firms CVC Capital Partners and Ardian and US-based L Catterton have all had conversations with advisers about potential initial public offerings, people with knowledge of the talks said....
January 10, 2022
Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
Will writing: a case of whodunnit or haven’t done it yet?
...Sayers’ Unnatural Death and Christie’s Peril at End House for two gripping examples)....
January 7, 2021
ReviewNon-Fiction
Mutual Admiration Society — Dorothy L Sayers and her rule-breaking friends
...Headed by Dorothy L Sayers — who would go on to become the renowned crime writer and creator of the beloved aristocratic sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey — they called themselves the Mutual Admiration Society (MAS...
November 29, 2019
HTSI
For the wall and the wardrobe – Erdem and De Gournay collaborate
...“I’ve always been fascinated by the De Gournay world,” says Moralioglu, from the brand’s sumptuous headquarters, surrounded by its panoramic 19th-century L’Eden design....
February 15, 2020
FT Live
Business of Luxury Summit
Gathering leaders in luxury for the 20th year
Sunday, 19 MayVenice, Italy
HTSI
Inside Isabel Ettedgui’s 15th-century ‘playground’
...Sayers and Agatha Christie novels....
November 6, 2020
The Art of FashionArt of Fashion: jewellery
The other crown jewels: the Wallis Simpson collection
...However, although the house was filled with trompe l’oeil and the photos were retouched, the jewels were — are — resolutely real....
June 23, 2020
ReviewBiography and memoir
Square Haunting by Francesca Wade — women who defied prejudice
...Dorothy L Sayers, the crime novelist, was there for a year, Woolf for less than a year and Jane Ellen Harrison, scholar and translator, for two years....
January 10, 2020
Visual Arts
British Baroque at Tate Britain — flamboyance and decline
...Godfrey Kneller’s streamlined “Hampton Court Beauties” — “Diana de Vere”, “Margaret Cecil” — are identikit as the giant Chinese porcelain vases displayed alongside them....
February 7, 2020
The Aesthete
Designer Claud Cecil Gurney: ‘One needs to be in communion with an animal to remain sane’
...I actually read the French version, which has a prettier title, Le Charme Discret de l’Intestin....
February 26, 2019
ReviewBooks
2020 visions: the year ahead in books
...Sayers, classicist Jane Harrison, historian Eileen Power and — who could avoid her?...
January 3, 2020
Life & Arts
Scheming spires: trouble at Oxford’s Christ Church
.../ From Paul L Davies, Emeritus Professor of Corporate Law, University of Oxford, UK...
October 11, 2019
The Aesthete
Designer Fabrizio Buonamassa Stigliani on Japanese stationery, driving shoes and apricot tart
...From €34; lamy.com The grooming staple I’m never without is Diptyque’s L’Ombre dans l’Eau....
November 27, 2018
FT SeriesHouse & Home Masterclasses
Luke Edward Hall gives a masterclass in maximalism
...He loves things that are imitations of great design, he says, or that turn it on its head through illusion, like trompe-l’œil, which gives the appearance of a third dimension where none exists....
February 22, 2019
Letter
Fear and loathing at the Chamber of Commerce
...This is recounted in L S Pressnell’s marvellously thorough documentation of that sovereign debt crisis, Essays in Money and Banking in honour of RS Sayers....
October 2, 2017

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